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Double Bassist Inspirational Quotes (34)

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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
Gavin Bryars
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars
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For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.
Esperanza Spalding
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
Gavin Bryars
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
Esperanza Spalding
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The virtuoso element in jazz playing, all those very fast runs in the upper extremes, simply doesn't appeal to me. That's why I don't want to make my concerto virtuosic in the sense of a technical show-off. I want a beautiful sound and a melodic and lyrical line. I am more interested in the way someone can play musically.
Gavin Bryars
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I am from the planet of elegance.
Ron Carter
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
Gavin Bryars
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The music that I make is pretty sincere it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
Esperanza Spalding
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I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
Esperanza Spalding
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It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.
Gavin Bryars
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A good bassist determines the direction of any band.
Ron Carter
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
Gavin Bryars
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The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars
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When people say, Oh, she plays like a dude, it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, Oh, she's as good as us. Of course, that's a stupid statement.
Esperanza Spalding
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I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.
Gavin Bryars
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Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
Gavin Bryars
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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
Gavin Bryars
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It's weird sometimes to have people not see me or see what I do.
Esperanza Spalding
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People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.
Gavin Bryars
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You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.
Esperanza Spalding
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
Gavin Bryars
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I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a jazz musician - it's a big responsibility.
Esperanza Spalding
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